First I'd like to introduce you to this: http://ucsx.org/ http://ucsx.org/ But no, there is no particular reason to introduce a longer encoding than the modern

First I'd like to introduce you to this: http://ucsx.org/ http://ucsx.org/ But no, there is no particular reason to introduce a longer encoding than the modern UTF-8 (which is actually shortened from the original one-to-six-byte encoding). The current set of 1,114,112 Unicode characters is sufficient for at least the foreseeable future, because any new assignment requires a demonstrable historic or current use. (Emojis are slightly different, but they still require that the underlying concept is widespread and do not significantly overlap with existing emojis. See [1].) Han characters are the largest source of new assignments to this date and they are yet to reach two out of 17 full planes (that would equate to 131K characters). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26904980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26904980